Non-Destructive Investigation of Bulk Residual Stress in Automobile Brake Pads with its Service Life

2016-11-16_18h02_45A paper published in « Journal for Foundations and Applications of Physics »,  available online at sciencefront.org.

Automobile brake systems transform kinetic energy into heat for the purpose of speed control. During this operation, rapid heating and cooling cycles cause the formation of residual stress in the brake pad backing plate. In this study, the relation between residual stress magnitude and the operation period is investigated to predict the service life of brake pads. ….

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